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INDEX

Verona, city of, L 320; academy for
poetry and music at, 321

Versailles, court of, in the last days
of Louis XV., i. 8-21; court pre-
sentations pleasantly described,
9-14; the Pare - aux - Cerfs, or
PErmitage, at, 19 ; court of
Louis XVI., ii. 6; queen's ball
at, 13

Vesuvius and its district, L 121,
124, 138, 140, 145, 309

Vetturino, travelling by agreement
with a, i. 252, 300, 311

Viaticum, the, administered to Louis
XV., i. 18

Vico, lake of, i. 311

Vida, Latin poet, i. 169

Vienna, i. 328-361 f

Vienne, river, near "Tours, i. 42

Villa Hermosa, Spanish ambassador
at Turin, i. 265

Vilvorde, prison of, formerly a house
of industry, i. 374

Vincennes, park of, ii. 27

Vineyards in France, i. 55, 277; of
Italy, 242 j of Germany, 340, 365

Virgil, admiration in Italy for, L
169 ; his tomb at Posilipo, 146

Viso, Monte, i. 263

Viterbo, mountain of, i 312 j town
of, 312

Vitruvius, L 321

Vittoria, built on a hill, i. 105

Viventor, physician of Naples, i. 157

Volcanic district near the Adriatic
sea, i. 307; near Ronciglione, 311

Volcanoes: remarks on volcanic dis-
tricts, Vesuvius, i. 124; Etna,i. 188

Voltaire, statue of, by Pigalle, i. 7 ;
his " Siecle de Louis XIV.,55170
n.; his works criticised, ii, 247

WALL, general, former Spanish
minister, i. 67; his residence at
Grenada, 75

------Mr., death of, in a dael, ii. 33

Wertsee, lake, i. 325

West India Islands, restoration of
Ste. Croix, St. Thomas, &c., to
the Danes, ii. 289 n., 297, 300;
Mr. Swinburne's West India pro-
perty, i. 384

White's club, ii. 66

Wight, Isle of, visit to the, ii. 97

Wilkes, Mr. John, anecdotes of, i.
384, 394, 396; ii. i, 62

William IV., when duke of Clarence,
ii. 68

Willis, Dr., ii. 65, 269

Wines : Neapolitan, i. 136; La-
cryma Christi, 171 5 of Sicily,
187 ; of Montmelian, 271 ; of
Montepulciano, 317 ; Tokay, 340

Woburn abbey, i. 380

Woronzow, count, ii. 279

Wraxall, Sir William, ii. 2

Wurtzburg, palace of the prince-
bishop of, i. 366; city of, 365 ;
forest near, 365

YARMOUTH, lady, anecdote of, i. 392

Yermoloff, celebrated general, ii. 41

York, cardinal, amusing account of

this descendant of the Stuarts, i

2IO

-----Frederick, duke of, L 370; ii

67
Young, Dr. Edward, his "Night

Thoughts," ii. 58